Unix file dates

[timi]

Hi all Wondering if you can help me with some Idea how to code this scenario.

I have to collect logs from certain folders however I want to only collect some from a certain date.
I have written a program to collect all the logs from the folders and zip them up but this still gives me about a 22 meg file to download over a modem.

I would like to add into my script to be able to prompt the user to enter a date or range of dates, read this in and then take the variables to and use them to collect only those logs.... any Ideas ?

Thank you all

 

[tikual]

Suggestion:
DATE=$1
# the following line, you may change ${DATE:-7} to ${DATE}, just want to provide a default value to the script.
find /path -mtime +${DATE:-7} -name 'your_log_name' -exec gzip {} \;

tikual